Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13
WOMAN'S WORLD.
SOMETHING IN REGARD TO FOREIGN MIS-
SI0NARY WORK.
A Fashionable View Of Jsnt-Ths NsapOlian Man
dom-How 10 Utilize old Pieces Of Silk
Miss Jeighs Mission HOuss-Shall
We Wear Says?
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Special Correspondence Of the Sunday Register.
NEW YORK, March 13.--"And so, they
say. you are packing spelling hooks and
primers for cop~per-cOlOred urchins?"
Miss Grace Howard looked up at the
question, glancing from the cheerful glow
of the library crate out of the window at
the eddyinr March snow flakes, whirling
round and about in their hest knicker-
booker imitation OF a northwestern biz
gard.
cit looks more comfortable here, in
deed" she said, "Dut l expect to be of for
Dakota in April or May"
When you appeal to the conscience of a
community is more often than not a wom-
an who makes the first response. The tale
of century of dishOnOr has struck home to
women's hearts, and the first tiutter OF
sunrise that ran round the country a few
week AGO over the announcement that Miss
Elaine Goodale had gone to Dakota to teach
the Indians had hardly subsidized when 1t
WAS stirred again by the rumOr that Miss
Grace Howard, daughter Of Joe Howard,
the journalist, was making ready to start
upOn the same errand.
Miss Howard, who has done ei1clent
service among the east side tenements OF
New York, will be missed by the rough
and tumble lads of the missions IN winch
she has worked. She has the oval face,
the clear olive skin, the brown hair, the
steady eyes and straightforward Oh
n Young woman who is in earnest IN what
ever task she undertakes.
81 shall be stationed ut Crow Creek,
she replied to my questions, looking back
once more ut the fiCkerlng fire hgbt.
"Miss Goodale is at Lower Brule, and we
shall he about twenty-five miles apart.
There are 400 Indians at these two
stations. and there is room for plenty oil
work among them. .,
AS tor the spelling book and primer,
she went on, IL anu not going among the
Indians rs a teacher and doubt if take so
much AZ an alphabet with me. My plan
is of Il different sort, and | have bad IL III
mind for two or three years now. | nave
spent a great deal of time ut Hampton IN
stitute and have talked much with the
Indian girls who are receiving thell educa-
ton there. In all my conversations with
them | nave been struck by their dread OF
4 return home. 1t is not that they do not
nine for their own kin and their own color,
for the race instinct and the home instinct
is strong with every Indian woman, but
that there is absolutely nothing on the
reservations for them to do. They have
learned the ways OF civilization and they
are going back to barbariSm. They have
BEGUN to think n little rs white women
think and do a little rs white women do,
and the new life they have commenced to
live is on the point OF dropping absolutely
away from them. For the lnuiah BOY
there is always the farm. For the Indian
girl there is nothing. Housekeeping IN IN
Indian cabin is too simple to furnish an oc-
cupatiOn. and it one wishes 10 sew there
is not 50 much rs 4 scrap or a rag on when
to employ the needle.
1.-The wants of women always, | think,
have an especial interest for other women,
and 50 it is the unhappy position OF these
returned Indian girls that has appealed to
me quite as storngly rs any other phase OF
the SO called Indian question, winch, alter
all, is not a question at all, hut merely a
point of common honesty and conscience.
spent SOM moths in the West last sum
mer and turned over in my head a good
many different plans. This that | have
finally decided on is n modest enough
scheme ut the start, though | hope 1t may
grow into something of actual good.
at is really an industrial project, not
an educational plan. The strongest desire
OF the Indian, man or woman, who has
come in contact with civilization ut all,
is To wear the clothing OF the white people.
They will hey it, buy it ifthcy have money,
one and all. 1t is impossible Ia prvide for
even a fraction of those who desire 1t, for
the only supply is through the packages
sent tn the missionaries families from the
at. Ii is this demand for clothing that
am going to take advantage OF Ia sup
plv the Indian girls with an industry.
At Crow Creek | shall take perhaps W at
first, aftcrward Il larger number, into the
house with me. They will he Hampton
students who can cut and fit aud sew. We
shall supply garments that can be sold TO
the Indians at moderate prices, and look
To see a business grow out of 1t IN time
not in my hands perhaps-that shall sup
ply employment to women who are sadly
in need OF it. 1t will he the first effort to
organize work for the Indian girls, aud
they are quite ready to take hold OF It,.
The stations at Crow Greek and Lower
| Brule. which are in southern Dakota on
the Missouri River, are in charge OF MAJOR
| Anderson. one OF the hest known and most
| efficient Of the Indian agents, who Is III
full sympathy with the educational and
| industrial projects OF Miss GOodale and
Miss Howard. The Indians are OF the
| Sioux tribes and are showing themselves
open to the influences Of civilization
Miss Goodale, so Miss Howard tells me,
has established herself comfortably with
hooks and pictures and the thousand and
one rctinementS OF 4 wOman's HON about
her, and is inclined to laugh a little at the
wasted sympathy that has been lavlShed
upon her, as one who had, i'll devotion to n
hopeless cause, baniShcd herself from clvi-
l~izatiOn. Her companion, Miss Tileston,
who has been appointed missionary to the
station, CO-Operates with her IN the School
work. and together they hope TO RAISE the
standard of the day schools provided for
the Indians. They have already a daily
average attendance Of forty sous and daugh-
tiers of the forest and look to see yet more
thumbing spelling book and reader.
Something OF what it means to be 4 sue
cessful teacher of the Indians and some
thing OF the absolute Self-surreuder that
the work TO these women implies may be
inferred from the reason that Miss Howard
gave me for the failure of some of the
government day schools on the frontier.
There have been teachers she said,
"whO have accepted their situations for the
salaries; who have done their days work
10 the class room and then expected an
evening set apart for ,hcjr fuses, Now
| at Hampton | have seen he little Indian
girls creeping softly into q teachers room
at 6 O'CLOCK in morn,ng and sitting there
whispering under their breath till she
woke, that they might not waste a minute
of the day that she could give them. 1t is
absolute devotion that Indian pupils eX-
pect; if they get it, they respond to it
! uuicklv; ifthere is any reserve, they draw